Category: Able Americans

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Rachel Barkley: Fraud Reform Must Target Criminals, Not Cut Off Disability Care

Able Americans, Commentary /
“When government responds to fraud with blunt instruments, the people who rely on these programs can become collateral damage.” In a commentary published at The Hill, Able Americans Director Rachel Barkley commends the good intentions of those who want to root out fraud in the social ...
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Is Any Life Unworthy of Living The Fall and Rise of Eugenics – The 1950s and 1960s

The Fall and Rise of Eugenics – The 1950s and 1960s

Able Americans, Commentary /
Part 5 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. When Allied forces liberated the camps between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, what they found shocked the world. The first ...
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Boeing Refuses to Listen to Passengers With Disabilities

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Washington, D.C. - At this week's Boeing annual meeting, a disability activist with the National Center for Public Policy Research will call out Boeing executives for refusing to establish a Disability Access Committee to improve safety and accessibility for passengers ...
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The End of an Official Killing Program and Discovery of the Nazi Horror

The End of an Official Killing Program and Discovery of the Nazi Horror

Able Americans, Commentary /
Part 4 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. The secret official and organized killing under Aktion T4 at the six killing centers continued. However, by late 1941 things were starting to fall ...
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Life Unworthy of Life: A Tragic Reality – 1940s

Life Unworthy of Life: A Tragic Reality – 1940s

Able Americans, Commentary /
Part 3 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Unofficial killing began in earnest before Aktion T4 was implemented. In the beginning, Germans with disabilities (including infants and children) were admitted to hospitals ...
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Sara Hart Weir: Kansas Is Proving What’s Possible with ABLE—Now Let’s Scale It

Able Americans, Commentary /
"For decades, public policy sent a quiet but devastating message to people with disabilities: Stay poor or lose life-saving benefits," writes Able Americans Senior Fellow Sara Hart Weir. Sara notes that more than a decade after the ABLE Act was ...
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Setting the Stage for Life Unworthy of Life – The 1930s

Able Americans, Commentary /
Part 2 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?” Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D. Hitler had alluded to the Jewish Final Solution in Mein Kampf (1924), echoing many of the themes of Binding and Hoche’s 1920 ideas, including that the ...
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Why Should They Live? The 1920s and 30s

Able Americans, Commentary /
Many people believe that eugenics is a long-discredited idea that has no part in modern civilized society. This is wildly inaccurate. Eugenics is alive and well in 2026, albeit in different ideological and legal clothing. What began in the late 1800s ...
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Mark Mostert: Rolling Back Progress in the Skies

Able Americans, Commentary /
"For the last 40 years, passengers with disabilities have repeatedly been disappointed in the lack of progress around air travel," writes Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., in a commentary syndicated through InsideSources. While "the Air Carrier Access ...
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The Airlines and Airline Manufacturers Have Had 40 Years to Support Passengers with Disabilities – With Few Exceptions, They Have Failed Miserably

Able Americans, Commentary /
Air travel for passengers with disabilities is often fraught with unnecessary and significant challenges. In the commentary below, Able Americans Senior Researcher Mark Mostert takes a closer look at the Airline Carrier Access Act, which was passed in 1986. In ...
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